Re: Security flaw: subversion stores passwords by default

Karl Fogel wrote:
>
>> Currently svn provides both choices - it will store the password for
>> you or you can choose to not store as well. But we could look at his
>> argument as to keep the same two choices, but just make the default to
>> not store the password. The config parameter can be changed by users
>> if they wish to (to make store-passwords to 'yes' to make it store the
>> password).
>
> Sure. But we had this discussion years ago; we didn't just flip a coin
> to choose the current way, we really hashed out the pros and cons.
> (Hadmut may not have realized that, of course, since it was a long time
> ago.)

What does firefox do when you check the 'remember this password' box -
and can you use whatever library/api they use?

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    Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
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